Lee currently serves on the Advisory committee of the
National Human Rights Commission of Korea. She is the founding President of the International Child Rights Center, a non-profit organization based in Seoul. In 2009, she received the
Order of Civil Merit, the highest recognition given to a civilian in Korea, for her work in human rights. Lee served as chairperson of the
Committee on the Rights of the Child under the
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2007 to 2011. She also served as chairperson of the Meeting of Chairpersons of Human Rights Treaty Bodies from 2010 to 2011. The
Open Society Foundations funded her work through several grants to the
Sungkyunkwan University destined to support her research.
Myanmar In 2014, Lee was appointed
special rapporteur of the UN on the situation of
human rights in Myanmar first established in 1992 under the Commission on Human Rights Resolution 58 and extended annually. Following usual practice, her appointment as special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar was extended for one year in March 2019. The Myanmar government denied access to Lee. She completed her term in April 2020, and was succeeded by
Thomas Andrews. ==Titles, awards and honours==